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Frank Cressler
Nov 16, 2014
Frank A. Cressler, 81, of Shippensburg, died Sunday, November 16, 2014 at home. Born January 28, 1933 in Shippensburg, he was a son of the late Frank S. and Anna Mary Brinkerhoff Cressler. He was partners with his parents and brother in the former Cressler’s Fruit Market. Frank and his wife Mabel were owners of the former Cressler Trucking Company....
Charlotte Adams
Nov 15, 2014
Charlotte M. Adams, 94, of Shippensburg, died Saturday, November 15, 2014 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born Tuesday, June 8, 1920 in Newport, Perry County, she was a daughter of the late William H. and Ethel M. Flickinger Lenker. Charlotte was a 1939 graduate of the Newport High School and a member of the Shippensburg Church of Christ. She...
Marie Holtry
Nov 13, 2014
Marie L. Means Holtry, 94, of Shippensburg and a resident at Green Ridge Village, Newville, passed away Thursday, November 13, 2014 at the home. Born Sunday, August 29, 1920 in Middle Spring, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late James Q. and Anna Mabelle Crawford Means. Marie was a member of Grace United Church of Christ for over...
Ray Hockenberry
Nov 6, 2014
Ray M. Hockenberry, 74, of Shippensburg, died Thursday, November 6, 2014 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Saturday, September 7, 1940 in Green Spring, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late Cloyd Ellis and Esther K. Burkholder Hockenberry. Ray retired as a Weaver from the former Hoffman Mills in Shippensburg after 27 years of service. He was a member...
Verna Vaughn
Nov 6, 2014
Verna B. “Bonnie” Vaughn, 84, of Shippensburg, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at the West Shore Hospital in Mechanicsburg. Born Sunday, May 18, 1930 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Walter K. and Margaret Jane Cressler Mitten. Bonnie was a 1948 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was...
Nicole Ott
Nov 4, 2014
Nicole Mellott Ott, 42, of Chambersburg, went home to be with the Lord Tuesday, November 4, 2014 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Friday, March 10, 1972 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of Ruth E. Rosenberry Mellott of Shippensburg, and the late Forrest C. Mellott, Sr. Nicole was a 1990 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was...
Artemis Cupper
Nov 3, 2014
Artemis R. Cupper, 84, of Orrstown, died on the morning of Monday, November 3, 2014, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on September 30, 1930, in Carlisle, the only child of the late Marlin and Hazel Reed Peters. Artemis was employed as a seamstress at the former Marden Clothing Co., Shippensburg, retiring in 1992. She was a long-time member...
Carole Burkett
Nov 1, 2014
Carol E. Burkett, a resident of Manor Care, Chambersburg, died on the evening of Saturday, November 1, 2014, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on March 19, 1950, in Chambersburg, a daughter of the late Forrest C. Mellott and Ruth E. Rosenberry Mellott. Carol married Gary L. “Big Red” Burkett on March 24, 1967, in the Shippensburg First Church...
Thomas Archambeau
Oct 31, 2014
Thomas Paul Archambeau, 74, of Blue Jay Circle, Orrstown, died Friday, October 31, 2014 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Thursday, April 4, 1940 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Paul A. and Gladys S. Shuman Archambeau. He was a United States Air Force Veteran serving during the Vietnam War. Tom was formerly employed at Letterkenny Army Depot...
Patricia Hawbaker
Oct 30, 2014
Patricia A. Hawbaker, 63, a resident of Manor Care, Chambersburg, died Thursday, October 30, 2014 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born July 4, 1951 in Findleyville, Bedford County. Patricia was a daughter of the late Shannon and Grace Everhart Hedge. Years ago she worked at the Falling Spring Nursing & Rehabilitation Center as a Nurses Aid. Patricia was a...
Robert Taylor
Oct 29, 2014
Robert D. Taylor, Sr. 91, of Shippensburg, passed away surrounded by his family on October 29, 2014 at Providence Place, Chambersburg, PA where he had resided for close to three years. He was born on October 12, 1923, in Jackson, MI, the son of the late George Dewey and Gladys Leigh Taylor. After graduating from Vandercook Lake High School in...
Janet Nehf
Oct 23, 2014
Janet R. Nehf, 84, of Shippensburg, died on the afternoon of Thursday, October 23, 2014, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on September 7, 1930, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Paul and Katherine Heberlig Martin, Sr. Janet married her husband, James “Jim” L. Nehf on July 18, 1953, who survives her. Janet was employed as...
Esther Vanscyoc
Oct 21, 2014
Esther C. VanScyoc, 101, a life-long resident of Shippensburg, died on the evening of Tuesday, October 21, 2014. She was born on December 18, 1912, in Shippensburg, the only child of Ira William and Margery Renard Crusey. Esther was both a teacher and homemaker. Upon graduation from the Shippensburg Normal School, she started her teaching career in a rural one...
Aaron Grove
Oct 19, 2014
Aaron Heaster Grove, 26, of Pleasant Hall, died Sunday, October 19, 2014. He was born September 6, 1988 in Chambersburg. Aaron was the son of Ronald O. and Trina P. Heaster Grove of Pleasant Hall. He currently worked for Gannett Fleming in Camp Hill where he was a software developer. During high school and college he worked at McDonalds, Red...
Ezel Manuel
Oct 18, 2014
Ezel James Manuel, Jr., of Shippensburg, died on Saturday, October 18, 2014. He was born on Thursday, September 16, 1948. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of the Vietnam War and earned a Purple Heart medal. Graveside services will be held on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 12:00 noon in the Locust Grove Cemetery with the Rev. Walter R. Reed...
Kenneth Bender
Oct 16, 2014
Kenneth L. Bender, 69, of Fish Hatchery Road, Shippensburg, died Thursday, October 16, 2014 at his home. Born Sunday, July 1, 1945 in Gettysburg, Adams County, he was a son of Anna Marie Unger Bender of Chambersburg and the late Crawford L. Bender. Kenneth was a 1964 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School, and a member of the Newburg...
Kathryn Ommert
Oct 16, 2014
Kathryn L. “Toot” Ommert, 71, of Newburg, died Thursday, October 16, 2014 in the Holy Spirit Hospital. She was born October 11, 1943 in Newburg, Cumberland County. Kathryn was a daughter of Walter C. and Esther S. Hurley Dunlap of Newburg. She retired from Affiliated Industries in Shippensburg and many years ago worked for Richard’s Textiles. Kathryn was a member...
Agnes Chamberlin
Oct 11, 2014
Agnes M. Chamberlin, 85, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home, formerly of Newburg, died on the evening of Saturday, October 11, 2014 at the Personal Care Home. She was born on December 11, 1928, in Middle Spring, a daughter of the late James Q. and Anna Mabel Crawford Means and was a 1946 graduate of Shippensburg Area High...
Mary Shindledecker
Oct 10, 2014
Mary B. Shindledecker, 94, formerly of Kessler Dr. and then Elmcroft, Shippensburg, died on the morning of Friday, October 10, 2014, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on April 1, 1920, in Upper Strasburg, a daughter of the late John and Florence Reitz Basore. On July 21, 1937, she married Leslie M. “Wimpy” Shindledecker in Hagerstown, MD....
Dorothy Wyant
Oct 7, 2014
Dorothy Viola Wyant, 87, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Tuesday, October 7, 2014, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on December 18, 1926, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late George W. and Ethel Gamble Cover. Dorothy was a homemaker throughout her life. She was a member of the Shippensburg Community Church. In her free...
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